Gina Castro
Journalist at Freelance
Raised by Nuyoricans 🇵🇷 🏳️🌈 | Investigative reporter @journalsentinel | @MedillSchool alum | @PulitzerCenter fellow
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1 week ago |
jsonline.com | Gina Castro
Weeks after a fatalMother's Day apartment fire that killed five people, a Common Council committee called in city officials to review the city's sprinkler code. Milwaukee Fire Chief Aaron Lipski continued to advocate for requiring sprinklers in residential buildings at the May 28 meeting of the Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development committee, calling it a "silver bullet solution" to deadly fires like the one in the Highland Court Apartments.
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3 weeks ago |
jsonline.com | Gina Castro
A deadly blaze that left five people dead on Mother's Day has prompted a debate over requiring automatic sprinklers in apartment buildings in Milwaukee. Highland Court Apartments, the site of the fire, was not required by city code to have sprinklers due to the apartment building's age. But Milwaukee FireChief Aaron Lipski said sprinklers could have saved lives in the May 11 fire.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Gina Castro
32,415 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others? 32,415 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Gina Castro
Music was everything in the Correa household. Almost daily, the strum of the guitar and the patter on the congas would waft up the basement stairs of the house in Bay View owned by Raul Hernandez Correa Sr. and his wife Maria Guadalupe Correa. When the couple first arrived in Milwaukee in the 1940s, live Latin music was still something they had to travel to Chicago to hear. Raul Correa Sr. played a key role in changing that. He became a prominent guitarist, percussionist and band manager.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Gina Castro
Illegal dumping is an expensive, ugly and persistent issue in Milwaukee. The city's Department of Neighborhood Services hosted a workshop on April 16 on the topic, bringing together more than a dozen neighborhood organizations, members of Common Council and Mayor Cavalier Johnson to identify solutions. "We've got lots of work to do to combat this plague," Johnson said at the workshop.
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